From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 16 20:31: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC20637B7D1 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 20:31:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA49715; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 23:30:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 23:30:57 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Vikrant Kaulgud Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backup problem Message-ID: <20000416233056.H48499@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <32C96720.56955A7@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <32C96720.56955A7@yahoo.com>; from intelnet@yahoo.com on Wed, Jan 01, 1997 at 12:48:57AM +0530 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 01, 1997 at 12:48:57AM +0530, Vikrant Kaulgud wrote: > hello, > > i am having problem backuping up the root filesystem on another hard > disk. > > there some devices which have very large minor numbers. tar is giving > errors when compressing those devices. can you suggest some > method.utility by which the root filesystem can be successfully backuped > up ? man dump -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message